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Sometimes in life we just don’t use enough exclamation points! Well I’m changing that! Today is officially “International Exclamation Point Day”!

Or not. :-)

I’m just excited about the latest Jyte features. The Jyte team keeps on knockin’ ‘em dead with the new fun stuff they are adding all the time:

• User ranks: You can now view all kinds of user rankings on all manner of things. Most votes? Top claimant? Most comments? Now you can see it all plain as day.
• Spy!: We have the coolest thing going in “Spy!” technology … Jyte Spy! is here and gives you the ability to see what’s happening in real time on the site all in one page. Votes, claims, comments … you name it. Its all there for you to see. Quite fun (and enthralling IMHO).
• Ignore User: Is there a user you’re just tired of seeing claims from? Guess what, you can ignore them! Head over the users’ profile page and the “Ignore user” option will reveal itself.
• Bug fixes and Speed! (with a capital S): We’ve heard you when we have a bug. You’re all so responsive and we’re trying to respond as quickly as we can. Your patience has been rewarded with lots of bug fixes. Also, we’ve tweaked a bunch of the site to make it much faster. Its one of those things you can never test until you actually have half-a-million page views under your belt.

Thanks again everybody! Jyte is really taking off and its because of all of you!

My lord!! The Jyte team are maniacs!! (in the good way of course)

We’ve heard folks clamoring for RSS feeds for days now:

and the today the guys delivered!! You’ve got a couple of options for the views that you might want of this stuff.

Today the guys got RSS feeds going of claims. You’ve got a couple of options for this:

• Featured claims (note the RSS icon on the page)
• Recent claims
• Claims about you viewed off your profile page (note: these are about me!)
• Claims by you viewed off your profile page (note: again, these are about me!)

This is great! I was already getting obsessive about Jyte and now I can get crazy obsessive! :-) Did you know that this means that Jyte now works with Yahoo! Pipes?!:

Proof positive can be found here and here.

Woohoo! And happy claiming now! Great work guys!

Wow! What a response to Jyte! Its only been a few days and we’ve already had such a great response from this newly forming Jyte community.

Before I share a list of the different claims folks have made, I thought I would let folks know some of the things happening behind-the-scenes.

• Keep joining and making those groups … we’ll be adding some fun functionality to those very soon as well as publishing the data in more formats for your use on other sites.
• Do you have some code or hacks you’ve built that leverage the Jyte API? If so, head over to the Jyte Fan Club page and add yours today! The password for the wiki is ‘jyteiscool’.
• Biggest feature requests (they are on the way!):
• RSS feeds for claims, cred, etc.
• API for creating claims and updating cred
• Means for discussing claims
• User cred widget to put on your own site

Over the last couple of days, there have been some great claims that people have made. For some reason, people are very fixated on beverages:

I have no idea where they get that last claim from.

There have been some interesting/odd claims as well:

Claims with pictures:

Politically charged:

Ones that only geeks can appreciate:

Fortunately, Dag was the voice of reason:

And of course passionate users … Jay Carlton made 98 claims!

Thanks for helping us launch this service and we’re excited … the best is yet to come!!